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Just An Extra In Your Dreams

by Nova Soon

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Released as a single on April 16th 2021, 'Just An Extra In Your Dreams' is the first taste of new Nova Soon music since 2019's lavish debut LP: a high-concept, home-recorded, fingerpicked ballad with a soft undertow of harmonies, keys & synth harps. Set in an eerie emotionscape of 'Lackadaisy Fields', 'Passion Waves' & 'Streets of War', the lyrics follow two figments of a dreaming mind, whose initially warm feelings toward their blissfully ignorant creator start to sour as their shadow-lives meander on – inspired, in part, by the real-world malaise of a year spent indoors, stripped of the vital outlet of live performance. 'We'll sing the years away, but where's the sense of worth we sorely need?'

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I am just an extra in your dreams
I learned it as a child in the Sorrow Trees
My best friend said we're here in case
Your subconscious needs a face
Or two to fill your fears and fantasies

A pair of distant figures in your dreams
We tried to catch your eye at seventeen
We sprayed our names, and shouted yours
But down on the Streets of War
If you're no star, it's hard to steal the scene

We got mad, strode out on the Passion Waves
Slashed the water with our blades, 'til we tired
We got high in the Lackadaisy Fields
Spinning conversation wheels into the night

If we're just the extras in your dreams
How much can our efforts ever mean?
We'll sail down Rivers of Malaise
And we'll sing the years away
But where's the sense of worth we sorely need?

So my friend fled into the Nothing Plains
Now she'll never sing again, or feel, or breathe
I got low, scaled the Mountain Range of Grief
Climbed the Chasms of Belief, 'til I could see

Our lives are your synapses' gift
These strange puppet plays in the mist
As shadows of you, it's still our honour to exist

I am just an extra in your dreams
We're old now, you and me, nearly at peace
Now in all the grandeur of your mind
Lost lands and dragon rides
Through Skies of Joy, I'm glad you dreamed of me

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released April 16, 2021
Words & music by Noah de Grunwald
Artwork by Fran Hammond

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